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Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ocean12 »

admiralpumpkin wrote: post #35

Bluetooth headsets are effectively a punchline. Google Glass—in its current form—is even worse. Until that enormous blob hanging out in front of the wearer can completely fade into the frame this will be nothing more than a geek curiosity. I think Google has excellent engineers, and very poor self-restraint. This product is at least 2 generations away from what it needs to be, but instead of working on it in the labs…

I've never understood the argument against bluetooth headsets. I live in a major city and see them all the time. I wouldn't wear one while sitting at a meal with someone, but neither do I see the sense in holding a phone to my head while walking or working with my hands when I can just as easily use a headset.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by slurry »

mistercow wrote: post #3

>Google has never ​had a successful product that people pay for. Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.

First rule of internet tech blagging: desktop/consumer space is the only thing that matters. See: Linux everywhere on servers and embedded devices, internet still obsessing about whether "grandma" can use it to play solitaire. See also: PHP coders complaining that Java is too slow, because one time they tried to start up Eclipse.

Google has never made anything that this guy and his friends, have paid for, therefore failure.

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Post by jiggy2011 »

weego wrote: post #21
pinko wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. The implication of the quote is that, unlike traditional glasses, Google Glass will distract the wearer .

So his point is he is blaming the product for people not being attentive? That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention, and yet I'm supposed to buy that that is a valuable insight?

I think the point is that when someone has a private always-on HUD right in front of their eyes you can't necessarily tell how much attention they are paying to you.

Are they look at me and smiling because they like me, or have they superimposed a cartoon on top of my face?

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Post by Jabbles »

ocean12 wrote: post #48
Jabbles wrote: post #22

certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the only "argument" in the article. The others seem to be arguments from personal incredulity. http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-7-sales-soared-2012-still-fell-s... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A…

Unless I'm wrong, the big ASUS splashed across the back of my Nexus 7 seems to say that someone other than Google made the device.

So what Google hardware was he referring to when he said it had been a complete failure? Their in-house servers? I suppose they haven't sold any of them...

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ocean12 »

ph33r wrote: post #2

"Other than practical folks like Gruber ... " I stopped reading after that sentence.

Then you missed a cogent argument:

"If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone."

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Post by bergie »

ocean12 wrote: post #48
Jabbles wrote: post #22

certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the only "argument" in the article. The others seem to be arguments from personal incredulity. http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-7-sales-soared-2012-still-fell-s... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A…

Unless I'm wrong, the big ASUS splashed across the back of my Nexus 7 seems to say that someone other than Google made the device.

It is unlikely to Google will build factories to make the Glass, either. It might be a Google-branded product (like ChromeBook Pixel), or something they'll license to other manufacturers (like Android), or a hybrid of these (Nexus). Time will tell.

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Post by jgroome »

Jabbles wrote: post #22

certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the only "argument" in the article. The others seem to be arguments from personal incredulity. http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-7-sales-soared-2012-still-fell-s... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A…

He actually name-checks Nexus as an example of a failed product. Meanwhile the Android community is generally in love with the Nexus 4, I know two non-techies who love their Nexus 4s (Nexuses 4?), and I myself think my Nexus 7 is a joy to use.

Granted, there were those problems getting the initial batch of 4s out to the public, but that's hardly grounds to say a company is incapable of making customers happy, surely.

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